Psychology 2

Front 1

What is a discriminative stimulus?

Back 1

It precedes a particular response, signals the probable consequence for the response and

therefor influences the occurrence of the

response

Front 2

What is the response in operant conditioning

Back 2

The response is the voluntary behavior that

occurs in the presence of the discriminative

stimulus

Front 3

What is the consequence in operant

conditioning?

Back 3

The consequence is the environmental event

that occurs immediately after the response

and determines whether or not response will

occur

Front 4

Describe mental health

Back 4

Is the capacity of an individual to interact with

others and the environment in ways that

promote subjective wellbeing, optimal

development and effective use of the person's

cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing

Front 5

Describe mental illness

Back 5

A psychological disorder that significantly

interferes with an individuals cognitive,

emotional and social abilities

Front 6

Describe the biopsychosocial framework

Back 6

An approach to describing and explaining how

biological, psychological and social factors

combine and interact to influence a person's

physical and mental health

Front 7

Describe a key assumption underlying the

biopsychosocial framework

Back 7

It's based on the idea that both health and

illness are best understood by considering

specific factors from within each domain and

how these factors may combine and interact

to influence our wellbeing

Front 8

What is the sensitive period

Back 8

A period in development when an organism

is more responsive to certain environmental

stimuli or experiences

Front 9

What is the critical period

Back 9

A specific period in development during which

an organism is most vulnerable to the

deprivation or absence of certain environmental

stimuli or experiences

Front 10

What is developmental plasticity?

Back 10

It refers to changes in the brains neural

structure in response to experience during

its growth and development

Front 11

What is adaptive plasticity?

Back 11

Refers to changes occurring in brain's neural

structure to enable adjustment to experience,

to maximize remaining functions in the event

of brain damage

Front 12

Define meaning of plasticity

Back 12

plasticity is the ability of the brain's neural

structure or function to be changed by

experience throughout the lifespan. It

provides biological basis for learning

Front 13

What is a flashbulb memory?

Back 13

A vivid and highly detailed memory of the

circumstances in which someone first learns

something very surprising, significant or

emotionally arousing event

Front 14

What is the difference between post and

pre synapses

Back 14

Post synaptic = sending message

Pre synaptic = receiving message

Front 15

What is action potential?

Back 15

When the info travels along the axon as a

electrical impulse

Front 16

What happens in acquisition in

classical conditioning

Back 16

The UCS (naturally occurring) is associated with

CS (what once was the NS) to produce a CR

which is very similar to the one of UCR

Front 17

Explain synaptogenesis

Back 17

- The process of forming new synapses when

learning takes place

- dendrites and axons grow so more

connections can be made

Front 18

What is spatial neglect syndrome?

Back 18

A disorder where a person ignores stimuli on

one side of their body (left or right)

Front 19

What is a disadvantage of an Independent

Group Design?

Back 19

It requires a large number of participants to

ensure the sample accurately represents the

population

Front 20

What is sleep debt?

Back 20

Sleep debt is an accumulated amount of sleep

loss from inadequate sleep. Not getting enough

sleep adds up to debt which can be reduced

when sleep as been caught up on

Front 21

What is the role of the amygdala in memory?

Back 21

Amygdala regulates emotions

It also has a role in forming a memory with

emotional significance

Front 22

Not being able to recall a students name at

a rock concert is which type of forgetting

Back 22

This is retrieval failure. Because there was a

lack of the right retrieval cue to remember the name

Front 23

Which measure of retention is known to

fade with age?

Back 23

Recall

Front 24

What is a disadvantage of repeated

measures?

Back 24

The practice effect

The order effect

Front 25

What is an advantage of repeated measures?

Back 25

Participant variables

Front 26

What is an Independent Group Design

Back 26

Each participant is randomly allocated to one

of two (or more) entirely separate (independent)

groups or conditions